西默斯.希尼的早期诗作许多都取材于北爱尔兰乡村的童年生活。童年的经历和感受与诗人后来,特别是成年后的经历和感悟既有着相通之处,更有着极大的不同,甚至是天壤之别。这种感受和感悟的变化被诗人通过童年的视角,采用比较和对比的手法在其诗作中巧妙地表现出来,传达出诗人对正在消失的淳朴的乡村世界的感伤和怀念,记录着诗人对自身文化身份和诗歌传统的探寻。 Many of the early poems of Sims Sinny are drawn from the childhood of Northern Ireland. Childhood experience and feelings and poet later, especially after the adulthood experience and perception of both have similarities, but also has a very different, or even a world of difference. This change in feelings and perceptions is expressed poetically through poet’s comparative perspective through his poetic perspective in his poem. It conveys the poet’s sentiments and nostalgia for the vanishing honest rural world, and records the poets’ Cultural Identity and Poetry Tradition.